They can’t get enough of it in the virtuous heartland.
THE STEROIDS DEBATE: It’s raging on the Letters Page. Here’s an interesting angle as well:
Steroids have their predecessors in athletics. One of the first elements to alter track and field records was the Fiberglass pole used in pole-vaulting. It had a natural spring in it that its predecessors lacked, lifting its user over substantially higher barriers than before. It got accepted at last.
Steroids will too, I think. Eventually.
BOZELL BUSTED: The professional hysteric, Brent Bozell, is, apparently, almost the only source of all that pent-up public outrage over naughty television. Jeff Jarvis has the goods.
THEO IN DENMARK: The country’s Muslim groups are now protesting that Theo van Gogh’s short film about the oppression of women in Islam has been broadcast on naitonal television. The beat goes on …